Stay true to the dreams of thy youth

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Bruce Kratky said...

Ohhhh! This brought back such memories. I was helping a woman to her car with bags of seafood products that she had purchased from our retail store on State and Ohio Streets in Chicago. She had parked right across the street, on the west side, from our store. There were parking meters all along the curb. It was around one in the afternoon and there were lots of cars, buses, and intense taxi traffic. I was so intent on getting to the car safefly, getting her seated and her purchases placed in the trunk neatly, so they would not spill, that I took my eye off of the meters. As I closed her door I turned and in full stride stepped "through" a meter taking a blow to the solarplexis. I remember letting out a horrible UUUUUHhhhh! and then falling to the ground. I nearly broke some ribs. She got out of the car and almost got hit by a bus. Somehow we both survived. I told her I was all right, to be careful unlike me, I got my breath back and returned to the store where the entire staff was laughing their heads off at what they had just witnessed. Not my finest hour.

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